Bounties managed by team themselves

[marilynmanson21]

I can understand what you mean, and all of them are actually true, but ofcourse only for some of bounties. I have been experienced the same thing so many times, and the worst case is the project are not paying out the participant and acting like the bounty are never happened. The best scenario of bounty are it's being managed by high-trusted bounty managers, and the bounty funds are already being escrowed.

[gikere]

To be honest, bounty managers are not some kind of god that you should completely trust them just because they ain't from the team. Maybe only the good and trusted bounty managers could really make sure your profit but I don't put the very well-know bounty managers on the same level of bounty project managed by the team themselves.

[Sebas.tian]

I like what bounty detective team are doing presently, there is no going back once a bounty got introduced by bounty detective because they use escrow, they handle the distribution at their own convenient time, you don't have to worry about not getting paid because all tokens are in bounty detective hand

There are some of their bounty projects they don't have total control, like Basic Finance project they promoted last time, bounty hunters made several complaints against the distribution by the team and Bounty Detective said they can't do anything aside the issue because the team project were the ones in charge of distribution, some hunters completed their KYC and were denied access to their login into their account.

[Mulann2]

This is not necessary the case, sometimes even if a member of the team manages a bounty that bounty can still come out great depending on the project, I think there are few successful campaigns managed by team, between, if you look at it from the bm perspective, the bm only managed the bounty and has nothing to do with reward distribution so if a team will behave bad they can still do it even if the campaign was managed by a bm.

[rexxarofmoknathal]

Most of your points apply to all bounties, not just the ones that are managed by the team.

Very few bounty managers take control of the rewards before they begin the bounty. Therefore the team can simply do whatever they like at any point, and the bounty manager will have little to no say in the matter since they don't hold the coins.

The only way you can effectively avoid these issues is if you only participate in bounties where the rewards are escrowed by the manager or someone else impartial.

[Rengga Jati]

I'm not here to discourage you about bounty campaigns that are managed by the project team themselves, I'm here to tell you that you need to be extremely cautious, I've noticed that team managing campaigns themselves is not good

Are you sure that you have noticed all team managing campaigns themselves are not good? All of them? or only some of them? Please do more research about it.
And please see on my signature. It is Bestchange. You know, Bestchange team does their own campaign managing and they are really profesional, legit, pay all of the participants very well, provide trusted and also professional participant selections. In fact, Bestchange (self-campaign managing) pay me with BTC, it is legit, isn't it? Can it be said that this is not good? That is why you must do more reaserch on it before judging all of them. You should say "several" or "most".

Yeah, bounty manager is good enough and they alos help us and the team to manage with professional ways. I also appreciate them because thye have worked very well and hardly.
The most important thing is not only on the BM but on the project itself. We must be careful in choosing a bounty of new projects.

[htsy585]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees things this way, or am I?

I agree with you, i personally don't prefer part of the team managing the bounty campaign because they always seems to be too restrictive when it comes to awarding proper stakes for work done. Again, i noticed that it is always more easier for teams to default and delay payments when it's one of them managing the campaign.

[NS-Soul]

I'm not here to discourage you about bounty campaigns that are managed by the project team themselves, I'm here to tell you that you need to be extremely cautious, I've noticed that team managing campaigns themselves is not good

1. They have all the freedom of doing any how with your rewards

2. They can change certain rules that aren't reasonable, just because it's their project and they are handling the distribution they are free to do some bad things

3. Bounty Managers are very very important, you can get them nailed for not facing the team to force them to do distribution but you can't fight the team yourself

I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees things this way, or am I?

Yes they have freedom to do it but if you trust the team why afraid? You don't need to be afraid as you can see many bounty manager show the allocation for the bounty hunter if you have doubt you can compute it so you can be satisfied that's why you are part of a hunter to react of they do wrong and manager give you satisfied answer.

[Westfiled]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees things this way, or am I?

I agree with you, i personally don't prefer part of the team managing the bounty campaign because they always seems to be too restrictive when it comes to awarding proper stakes for work done. Again, i noticed that it is always more easier for teams to default and delay payments when it's one of them managing the campaign.

When it was managing by the trusted team and the payment will be caused by it has direct cooperation to the team. You must take a look at oikos and it was getting handled by the internal (a team member) and everything can be done instantly. The communication is much easier too. there will always pros and cons.

[btcholder]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees things this way, or am I?

No, you are not only person, i think many hunters also saw that in many times. I won't say that every bounty projects are bad which are managed by team themselves cause i did work some good bounty projects which also managed by team themselves. But it's true that now days it's rare to see that. I agree that BM is important because MB work like 3rd party between Team and Hunters. So they can trust each other but i also found some bounty projects that they cheat hunters after finished their campaign (but they hired a MB though). DigitalBits one of them. So hunters should choose legit projects and work with under legit MB.

[carlfebz2]

I'm not here to discourage you about bounty campaigns that are managed by the project team themselves, I'm here to tell you that you need to be extremely cautious, I've noticed that team managing campaigns themselves is not good

1. They have all the freedom of doing any how with your rewards

2. They can change certain rules that aren't reasonable, just because it's their project and they are handling the distribution they are free to do some bad things

3. Bounty Managers are very very important, you can get them nailed for not facing the team to force them to do distribution but you can't fight the team yourself

I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees things this way, or am I?

Well, its all just be the same because neither the manager is part of the team or they hire one then it doesnt make a difference because if they do intently wouldnt pay  since from the start  they wont pay up until the end but somehow you do have points that bounty managers that had been hired would really able to make some follow-ups in regards of payments unless if the bm itself is a fraud then he wouldnt care at all.

Overall, bounty hunting becomes a shit activity thing to be done nowadays.Its never been worth for our time but there are still people who do keep hoping on making big  money on this one

but to tell that those golden days of bounty hunting is already over since that last bull run.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

The opportunities for the project become to scam is widely open. They use newbie copper member account and they can buy it cheaply through this forum so as they are free to post anything and promote anything without worrying that the account he uses is banned.

That will be different for the project who uses legendary or reputable/trusted account in this forum. They will be very carefull to choose a project that will be promoted. They will always try to build up a positive trust in this forum in order to they have another project in the other day there will be many bounty hunter who will promote it.

[lienfaye]

I think it all depends on the project itself and not entirely on who will manage the campaign.

I have experience joining in a campaign managed by member of the team but it turn out well.

Nevertheless a trusted manager is still better to have a high chance the rewards will be given accordingly.

[Saisher]

I'm not here to discourage you about bounty campaigns that are managed by the project team themselves, I'm here to tell you that you need to be extremely cautious, I've noticed that team managing campaigns themselves is not good

1. They have all the freedom of doing any how with your rewards

2. They can change certain rules that aren't reasonable, just because it's their project and they are handling the distribution they are free to do some bad things

3. Bounty Managers are very very important, you can get them nailed for not facing the team to force them to do distribution but you can't fight the team yourself

I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees things this way, or am I?

What' you've said are all possibilities that their team will do but some of the points you presented has been done by even independent bounty managers, the developers are the ones giving bounty managers orders on how the project will proceed, even independent bounty manager cannot break their agreement, it lies on the trustworthiness of the project.

[ChronoLite]

Even if the project got bounty manager still they can't force the bounty team to pay the rewards for participants if they are refusing to do.Bounty manager is also need to be an important factor that everyone should consider but don't take it for granted, do your own research on the team as well.

but reputable bounty manager would make any campaigns run smoother by saving the bounty pools to escrow or to bounty manager itself, i have seen other managers to do that and most of them are paying and successful both the ieo and bounty events, but it doesnt mean you should rely on that. like you said, research for the teams behind the project is mandatory

[Kupid002]

I think it all depends on the project itself and not entirely on who will manage the campaign.

I have experience joining in a campaign managed by member of the team but it turn out well.

Nevertheless a trusted manager is still better to have a high chance the rewards will be given accordingly.

They are doing that because they don't have any budget for marketing and to hired reputable bounty manager to manage the campaign. Instead of hiring they decide to one of them will manage it to reduce the possible cost if they hired manager. Campaign sometimes run for 3 months or more so they need to have budget for many months just for the manager alone.

[TimeTeller]

Even if the project got bounty manager still they can't force the bounty team to pay the rewards for participants if they are refusing to do.Bounty manager is also need to be an important factor that everyone should consider but don't take it for granted, do your own research on the team as well.

but reputable bounty manager would make any campaigns run smoother by saving the bounty pools to escrow or to bounty manager itself, i have seen other managers to do that and most of them are paying and successful both the ieo and bounty events, but it doesnt mean you should rely on that. like you said, research for the teams behind the project is mandatory

My opinion regarding about bounty programs if you are a participant - don't expect you will get the reward on time and with their target price.
Even reputable BMs are being screwed by these projects, unless they will give the allotted tokens to a particular escrow before the campaign begins.
Either way, the risk is still there, unless you join a btc paying campaign. That I can say has high chance of getting paid.

[serjent05]

Even if the project got bounty manager still they can't force the bounty team to pay the rewards for participants if they are refusing to do.Bounty manager is also need to be an important factor that everyone should consider but don't take it for granted, do your own research on the team as well.

Indeed, there is a little to no difference whether the bounty is managed by bounty hunter or the team itself since they will pay if they wanted to pay or turn into a scam.  I have several experience about this scenario and bounty manager mostly can't do anything whenever the project decided not to pay the participants.

[Argoo]

I like what bounty detective team are doing presently, there is no going back once a bounty got introduced by bounty detective because they use escrow, they handle the distribution at their own convenient time, you don't have to worry about not getting paid because all tokens are in bounty detective hand

Yes, I agree with your opinion. This is at least some kind of guarantee for the bounty hunters that the tokens will be paid. In addition, the detective bounty does not have a mandatory KYC check, which is also important for bounty hunters, since it does not take our time and does not create additional problems.
As for the conduct of ICO bounty campaigns by a member of their team, I really noticed that for bounty hunters it is more risky with payment and such a team member often does not understand the specifics of our activities and quite often comes up with non-standard requirements that are not related to our activities, which creates additional difficulties.

[Balladtony77]

Two things are involved, it's either you are treated well or the team played you, it's still all same old risks about been a bounty hunter, you can

1. Get paid in half or full
2. Or you might not get anything at all

Either one of these will happen, if you want to be a good bounty hunter you must be ready for both the good and bad results